# Three Hostages

Heard 2003. 2 episodes.

Dramatisation of a lesser known novel featuring a slightly older Richard Hannay, with David Robb once more doing the honours. His wartime service now at an end, the newly-knighted Sir Richard Hannay lives in quiet contentment on his country estate. But an unexpected and unsettling communication arrives from his old Secret Service boss Sir Walter Bullivant. What possible connection can there be between a carefree young society woman, an aristocratic Cambridge undergraduate and a ten-year-old boy? Why have all three suddenly vanished? And why have all three disappearances been followed by the same mocking, cryptic letter to the authorities? Bullivant knows. Said to have been Buchan's own favourite Hannay novel.

## Sets

- Three Hostages, The (Listeners' uploads): the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it. Source: https://archive.org/details/ThreeHostagesThe

## Episodes, in broadcast order

1. [Three Hostages 01](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/three-hostages/6ba9476c1b38) (57 min): https://archive.org/download/ThreeHostagesThe/Three%20Hostages%2001.mp3
1. [Three Hostages 02](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/three-hostages/e751e925fc21) (57 min): https://archive.org/download/ThreeHostagesThe/Three%20Hostages%2002.mp3

Uploaded to the Internet Archive by the person named, outside its radio collections.

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